1st Edition

The Development of Child Protection Law and Policy Children, Risk and Modernities

By Kieran Walsh Copyright 2020
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how child protection law has been shaped by the transition to late modernity and how it copes with the ever-changing concept of risk. The book traces the evolution of the contemporary child protection system through historical changes, assessing the factors that have influenced the development of legal responses to abuse over a 130-year period. It does so by focussing on the... Read more
Chapter 1: Modernity, Reflexivity, Risk And The Law;

Chapter 2: Threats, Victims And Agents: Victorian Law Reform And The Beginning Of Modern Child Protection;

Chapter 3: Children In The Constitutional Order Of Traditional Modernity;

Chapter 4: Children And Risk In Independent Ireland, 1921-1970;

Chapter 5: The Twilight Of Traditional Modernity: Children In Child Protection Law And Policy, 1970-1993;

Chapter 6: Children’s Rights And Constitutional Change;

Chapter 7: Child Abuse And Risk In A New Modernity: Child Protecion Law And Policy 1992 – 2006;

Chapter 8: Agents Of Change: Children And Risk In Reflexive Modernity 2006-2017;

Biography

Kieran Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Family and Child Law at the University of Portsmouth, UK.